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Senate committee advances bill to make gift-card tampering a felony
Senate Judiciary Committee · March 19, 2026
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Summary
The panel moved HB 447 to the Senate floor; Representative Gullett said the bill would criminalize possession of tampered redemption data and packaging for gift cards and raise penalties to felonies (1–10 years and up to $5,000) to aid prosecution of large retail fraud schemes.
Representative Gullett told the Senate Judiciary Committee that gift-card fraud has grown into an organized retail problem and presented House Bill 447 (LC 481574S) as a fix to a gap in current law. "Gift-card fraud is a growing problem in Georgia and across the United States for retailers," he said,…
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